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French Police Detain Suspect in Shooting Case

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Inti Landauro

Updated Nov. 20, 2013 7:46 p.m. ET

PARIS—French police detained a suspect late Wednesday as part of their three-day hunt for a gunman who kept authorities on edge after opening fire in several places across the city, an official at the Paris prosecutor's office said.

Acting on a tip from a witness who said he had provided lodging to the suspect, police located and detained the man in an underground parking lot in the western Parisian suburb of Bois Colombes, the...